Quicks: KM133A, Rambus, chip slump, WBGA, and the Alpha

Via Hardware put together a review of a KM133A chipset board that is an integrated video socket-A board with support for a 133MHz system bus. ZDNet UK suggests that, due to the recent Infineon evidence, there are mumblings that Rambus and Infineon could settle out of court. Chipmaker Motorola cut 4,000 more jobs–this time in their networking division. That's on top of news that the chip slump has months to go before it runs out. The Register discusses WBGA, the possible successor to the DIMM form factor. Ace's Hardware has details on an AMD 760 chipset-based Alpha motherboard. This was how it was supposed to work out, but now AMD will be moving to new bus architecture in 2002, so who knows if the Alpha will follow?